Director, Global Roadmap & Intake - Maternity Cover

Sky; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sky Q

Discounted mobile and broadband

Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Job summary

A leading media company in London is seeking a Director, Global Roadmap & Intake to lead the global product roadmap. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in product leadership within the entertainment or technology sectors, with strong strategic and stakeholder management skills. This role focuses on aligning strategic vision with product execution and managing relationships with global partners, while fostering a high-performing team culture. Offers a hybrid work model with attractive perks.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product leadership within the entertainment, media, or technology sectors.
• Strong preference for someone already operating at this level.
• Deep understanding of insight-driven global product strategy.
• Skilled in translating strategies into action plans and stakeholder narratives.
• Executive presence and strategic acumen.

Responsibilities

• Define and champion the strategic direction of the global product roadmap.
• Establish prioritisation frameworks guiding investment decisions.
• Align partner priorities with product strategy.
• Manage relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Lead a high-performing team of Product Managers.

Skills

Product leadership

Strategic communication

Stakeholder management

Agile mindset

Job description

Overview

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Our Product Management team works closely with our design, engineering, and business teams to create an unforgettable experience for our customers. Working across our TV platform and Digital Platforms, we create experiences for our customer-facing partners including Sky, Xumo, Xfinity, and Foxtel. We bring the world’s best entertainment platform to millions of homes around the globe. We’re the problem solvers who find smarter and simpler ways to connect customers to more of what they love.

This role leads a high-impact team responsible for shaping and delivering the global product roadmap, managing partner intake, and ensuring regulatory, accessibility, and compliance alignment across all Entertainment product areas. This role is pivotal in aligning strategic vision with execution, ensuring clarity, prioritisation, and momentum across the product organisation and with our global partners.

What youll do

• Define and champion the strategic direction of the global product roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer outcomes.
• Create scalable, repeatable processes for managing intake from global partners and common governance that meets excellent standards
• Establish prioritisation frameworks that guide investment decisions and empower product teams to focus on what matters most.
• Align partner priorities with product strategy, managing trade-offs and driving clarity on scope and outcomes.
• Ensure the roadmap is clearly understood across the organisation, with teams aligned on delivery expectations and strategic intent.
• Ensure partners understand the roadmap, their influence within it, and the value delivered through shared investment.
• Maintain momentum on partner commitments, ensuring timely decision-making and delivery against agreed priorities.
• Measure the success and impact of the roadmap through clearly defined, quantifiable outcomes that demonstrate progress against strategic goals and customer value delivery.
• Oversee European scaled product portfolios (e.g., Sky Q, Sky Go), ensuring continued value while transitioning to next-generation platforms.
• Lead the central function responsible for global accessibility, regulatory, and compliance required within product experience ensuring a single source of truth. Identify global commonalities and regional differences to support scalable, locally compliant product strategies.
• Manage relationships with internal stakeholders (e.g., Legal, Regulatory, Accessibility), maintaining alignment and accountability. Represent product in governance forums, ensuring decisions are progressed and risks are mitigated.

Focus areas for this role may include

• Create and evolve the global end-to-end strategy and framework that guides the direction of the overall roadmap.
• Maintain and communicate a centralised, up-to-date roadmap that reflects both a holistic global view and partner-specific priorities.
• Develop and embed best practices and baseline approaches that streamline execution, improve velocity, and elevate product quality across the team.
• Lead a high-performing team of Product Managers, fostering collaboration, clarity, and delivery excellence.
• Ensure the quality output of the team consistently meets and exceeds excellent standards.
• Manage and prioritise multiple significant and high-impact deadlines simultaneously with precision and focus.
• Navigate a large, matrixed, global organisation to drive alignment and accelerate decision-making.
• Develop and deliver compelling narratives and presentations tailored to various stakeholder levels, ensuring strategic clarity and engagement.

What youll bring

• Extensive experience in product leadership within the entertainment, media, or technology sectors, with a proven track record of leading global product strategy, roadmap development, and partner engagement at scale.
• Strong preference for someone already operating at this level
• Deep understanding of insight-driven global product strategy, roadmap development, intake management, and large-scale portfolio execution—focused on delivering holistic, end-to-end customer experiences that scale globally.
• Deep expertise in creating and implementing strategic prioritisation frameworks and governance models.
• Skilled in translating strategies into clear, actionable plans and compelling stakeholder narratives, ensuring clarity and engagement across diverse audiences.
• Skilled in navigating and influencing within large, complex global organisations to drive alignment, accelerate decision-making, and lead through complexity, ambiguity, and change.
• Executive presence, strategic acumen, and a track record of delivering at scale, with strong communication and stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence at all levels.
• Agile mindset with a focus on continuous improvement, innovation, and customer-centricity.
• Experience in accessibility, regulatory, and compliance requirements across global markets is desirable.

The rewards

There\'s one thing people can\'t stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Inclusion & how you\'ll work

Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. Investing in society, fighting racial injustice and setting ambitious targets for representation at Sky.

We’ve embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You\u2019ll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process.

Your office space

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

We\'d love to hear from you

Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It’s a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next.

But better doesn’t stop at what we do, it’s how we do it, too. We embrace each other’s differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet.

If you believe in better, we’ll back you all the way.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.